CNY author Anderson adds another award to trophy shelf (updated)

Updated to add: On her blog this afternoon, Anderson offers a hilarious post about the news, including how the delivery of celebratory flowers landed her locked out of her Oswego County house for more than an hour.

Posted earlier: Mexico, N.Y., author Laurie Halse Anderson this morning received a lifetime achievement award from the American Library Association during the ALA Youth Media Awards ceremony in Denver.

Anderson won the 2009 Margaret A. Edwards Award for lifetime achievement in writing for young adults, for her "outstanding lifetime contribution to writing for teens for 'Catalyst,' published by Viking Children's Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, 'Fever 1793,' published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, an imprint of Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing and 'Speak,' a 2000 Printz Honor Book, published by Puffin Books, a division of Penguin Young Readers Group, according to a press release.

Anderson also won prizes last week for her latest YA historical novel, Chains, which was a 2008 National Book Award finalist.